Samantha Ledar lives a life that most people only dream about: she is a happily married, wealthy, world-renowned author. That is, until a uniformed officer comes to her door and tells her the devastating news: shes a widow. Wasting away in a state of depression, Sam unexpectedly hatches the perfect plan to escape her grave reality and overcome her circumstances. Convincing her agent to hire her as an assistant but needing to conceal her identity from her fans, she transforms herself into one of the characters from her first novel. In cahoots with her agent, Sam travels across the country and excels in her new career. When Sam finds that one of her first assignments is to work covertly on her own award ceremony, shes forced to keep up appearancesespecially when shes teamed with the agencys handsome new author. As Sams fabricated life becomes increasingly more complicated, her deceits seem to compound daily into a complex web of fiction . . . just like one of her novels.